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Sophos wins "Best Email Security" award at RSA 2012

Now I've survived the RSA 2012 conference and returned safely to Sydney, let me tell you about something exciting which happened while I was in San Francisco.

(As regular Naked Security readers will know, I'm not usually given to marketroidistic endorsements, even of our own products, but in this case I couldn't resist it.)

At the SC Magazine Awards 2012, which were held in conjunction with the RSA conference, Sophos took the Best Email Security crown.

The Gold-winning product was the Astaro Security Gateway 8.2.

Huge props to our colleagues in Karslruhe, Germany! (As you can see, I picked up a bit of Street whilst I was overseas.)

Seems that the Twittersphere was correct back in May last year. As we reported at the time, Sophos's acquisition of Astaro produced a glowingly positive reaction from bloggers, analysts and users alike: